Writings of Claude Cahen, edition presented and established by Francis Leperlier (ed. Jean-Michel Place)
"The important thing is to be a princess," says Claude Cahen in its mini fairy tales not always fairy rather strangulées in a greenhouse-style exposed in debris nodes. Tiny frames, scissors for cutting away excess, sew in reverse, allow deadlocks. Claude Cahen loved to photograph (that we know of it) to paint, sealing, but a painful love, a rout his whole being. His writing is a long time left on the floor, away from the mirrors, with a scout, his uncle Marcel Schwob author among others of the "Lamp of Psyche". She sees "careerist of the soul" refrains from being too present. The writing is sharp as a sharp needle. All for a duchess obsolete, abandoned the curious skull (views and visions of camps decimated). Lucy Renée Mathilde Claude renamed as the other George. It answers the question biased "Individualism? Narcissism? Course. It's my best trend, the only intentional loyalty which I am capable." Between turns political chiseled poems and some rare photographs. We must dig deep to find the thread, step into the enormous storage: On man: "My prince charming is none other than God the Father." On the Superman: "I like [...] forever disembodied God the Son." On God: "The word God is necessary as is".
It describes the arrival of prisoners in a Nazi camp "the body deprived of clothing, hair" (as in its future self-portrait). In the last text, it evokes: "Every inhabitant of the country without mirrors," a concise prose and complex: "To me, to you, we alons lurched my personal pronoun hateful." And discovered, "reflecting my life tragic life trivial.
Beyond any political or aesthetic commitment, as a woman and artist of many talents, Claude Cahen questions the fluid voice of nothingness.
Sandra Moussempès, column published in Cahiers Reviews Poetry 5 (CIPM).
